Peps

great report and awesome pics, looks like a little piece of heaven

Al Linder, Bob Izumi and Dave Mercer

original floating Rapala in chartreus

thanks fellas,look forward to posting more reports in the future...

let me start by saying thanks to all on this board for all the great info that is shared here. you are all great people and i am honered to be part of this great community. this is my first report (sorry no pics ) i will get the pic situation down pat for my next report. we headed out bright and early on Saturday morning to our favourite lake east of Parry Sound, the drive up went smooth untill we hit our destination and the skies opened up and the terriable weather for the weekend started (as you are all well aware of). Oh well suck it up and get the boat in the water. We know the fishing was going to be tough but we had a game plan and we stuck to it, look for warm water and start casting shore line structure using x-raps and in-line spinners. didn't take long till i here from the front of the boat fish on and my good buddie and life long fishing partner brings in a OOS smallie quick release and back in the drink she goes. A high 5 in order and we say insinc the skunk is off (but thats not what we're after). So we move into a shallow bay and the water temp looks great 58 degrees, second cast in and i have a decent hit set the hook and the fight is on after a couple of good runs we land a healthy lookin Northern a respectable 33" now we're pumped. We continue to work the bay and are rewarded with some decent Pike nothing huge but it was great fun none the less. Being cold and wet we decided to head back to the cabin to warm up, eat and get some well deserved wobbly pops in us. It rained pretty much all day so we waited it out and got out on the water around 5ish but the fish had a bad case of lock jaw and we couldn't convince any takers, i had 1 follow from a Pike around 35" . So back to the cabin get dinner goin and tell tales from the past . Woke up Sunday early to more rain and a balmy 3 degrees we braved it and went out, what a mistake, should've stayed back in the warm cabin. Water temps dropped 5 degrees from Saturday, so needless to say it was a great lure washing session we tried and tried to no avail so we retreated back to the cabin. Finally at about 4the rained stopped and the skies cleared. Perfect i saidlets get goin, loaded the Smokercraft and back to the baywhere we were nailing them on Saturday. We get there start casting, i'm using a #4 Mepps Aglia Long and get a big hit i knew it was a good fish get it close to the boat and see a very nice BUT oos Largie fish makes 1 more run get her to the boat don't even lift her out of the water release the hooks admire her and let her go. My guess 4.5 - 5 lbs 23"-24", after that we quickly moved out to the entrance of the bay and start working the drop off, for the next hour we were on fire catching Pike nothing bigger than 30", so we kept a few eaters and headed back to the cabin for a good little fry and some more brown pops and called it a night . Got up Monday nice and early to get on the road to beat the traffic and spend the rest of the holiday with the family. All in all a great weekend spent with a great friend and oh yeah a few fish they're always a bonus. Sorry for the long read hope you enjoyed it. Peps

welcome aboard Peps

very nice indeed gotta love top water smallies... Peps

Thanks Johnny

thanks graftongal, anyone else? Peps

Can someone share some launch info? please Peps

Hello all, I was wondering if you all can help me out? Going fishing this weekend want to hit either simcoe or georgian bay (honey harbour,moon river) i just don't know of any launches. Was also thinking of Go Home lake....I know JohnnyBass has fished here before and by the looks of your report you did pretty good if you can help me out or put me in the right direction that would be awsome. Many Thanks Peps

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!! All the best Peps

John, so sorry here to here about your loss. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers during this hard time. Peps

glad everybody has seen some, my timing must be off or maybe they are just hanging around my tree stands Peps

I know we have some hunters on the board, but this question is for everyone. in your travels so far this summer has anybody seen any fawns out with any doe's? last year around this time and in the years past i probably would have seen atleast 5 fawns through out my travels, this year i haven't seen 1 and i'm on the road alot and travel through prime deer country. Peps

well said Lew, good luck on your adventure justmyluck. peps

my deepest condolences to you and yours first fish this weekend is for Herb Peps

didn't mean to offend anybody, but i guess i did....so sorry to whoever i guess i'm a little anxious, but it did spark some reply's Peps

i guess you have to be part of the clan or have over 1000 post to get a response.....no offence tonyb

tell me about it

no help.......

hi everyone, been awhile since i posted, been busy working on the house and have had no time to fish or do anything for that matter(but work on the house). Glad to see everyone who attended Lakair had a blast, and also everyone's bass opener was very succesful, all the reports i've read and all the pictures i've seen are giving me bass fever or more like fishing fever....so this is going to be my opener/first trip of the year (yeah i know pretty sad) . So we are heading up to Sparrow Lake, does anyone have any suggestions for this lake we will targeting bass for the most part but wouldn't mind getting into some pike, don't want anyone's hot spots just some general direction never fished there before. is the north end of the lake better? I wish everyone continued succes for the rest of season and be safe, i will post results when i get back. Thank again Peps

thanks everyone Peps

oops i meant sparrow lake Peps

thought i saw a thread saying that bass season open on the 23rd this year, i think they moved it up a week. i was thinking either cooks bay ar parrow lake. Peps